A Palestinian man past a row of defaced placards depicting President Obama in Ramallah, West Bank. The US leader will visit the region next week.

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North Korean artillery units fire at a nearby island during live drills overseen by leader Kim Jong-un and top military officers.

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony amid a heavy snowfall at the Russia’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, near the Kremlin in Moscow.

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Austria’s Klaus Kroell tumbles through a barrier during the Men’s Super G competition at the Alpine Ski World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.

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NYPD riot officers arrest a young man at a protest in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Tensions continued to be boil as protests in response to the shooting of alleged gang member, 16-year-old Kimani Gray, continue.

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A woman holds up a photo of a refugee camp that reads “rescue us” during a candlelit vigil in Cairo, Egypt, marking the second anniversary of the Syrian revolution.

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Carolina Kostner of Italy seems surreally surprised at something during her short program at the 2013 World Figure Skating Championships in in London, Ontario, Canada.

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Laura and Sasha, twin Polish Tatra sheepdogs, peer out of the back their owner’s truck before a ride in Pine Island, NY.

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An anti-government protester is engulfed in flames after a shot fired by riot police hit the gasoline bomb he’d been holding during clashes in Sanabis, Bahrain.

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Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs shows off an unorthodox microphone technique during an SXSW performance at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q in Austin, Texas.